Pretty Ugly People is a 2008 American comedy drama film written and directed by Tate Taylor, and starring Missi Pyle, Melissa McCarthy, and Octavia Spencer. The film is the story of a group of friends brought together for a four day hike in the Montana wilderness by one their number, Lucy. She is celebrating losing hundreds of pounds of weight after gastric bypass surgery. However, as she quickly realizes while she has become thin and happy, her friends are miserable. The film's title is derived from this realization. The film was filmed in Montana. Show Less

Pretty Ugly People tells the story of Lucy, a newly svelte young lady who gets her old friends back together for a four day camping trip to show off her new self. She quickly learns the idyllic lives she thought her friends have are actually conflicted and confused.